Adjustable bracket for curtain-rolls



No Model.)

R.T.GREEN ADJUSTABLBBRAGKBT FOR CURTAIN ROLLS. No. 558,945. l atented Apr. 28, 1896.

ANDREW EGRAHAM. PHGTOiIYIIOWISHINGTUN D1:

rrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ROSELLE T. GREEN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR CURTAIN-ROLLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,945, dated April 28, 1896.

Application filed November 19, 1894. Serial No- 529,22l. (No model.)

brackets embodying my invention, one end of the curtain-roll being journaled within a cylindrical cup supported by one of the brackets. Fig. 2 represents the same view as shown in' Fig. 1, but with the curtain-roll supported upon gudgeons at its ends. Fig. 3 is a top view of the adjustable bracket provided with a cup adapted to receive the end of a curtainroll. Fig. 4 is a top view of the opposite bracket. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the bracket-roll in Fig. 3 on line 5 5. Fig. 6 isa sectional view on line 6 6, Fig. l. Fig. 7 rep resents the underside of one of the adjustable brackets, and Fig. 8 represents an end view of the slotted plate upon which the adjustable bracket is held.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the different figures.

The object of my present invention is to provide adjustable brackets adapted to support either of the two varieties of curtain-rolls now in common use-na1nely, those in which one end is provided with a gudgeon, which is held from rotating by one of the brackets, and the opposite end enters and rotates withina circular bearing supported by the opposite bracket, and those curtain-rolls which are provided with gudgeons at opposite ends, one of said gudgeons being held from rotation by one of the brackets and the other being journaled within the opposite bracket.

In Fig. 1 I have represented a roll of the first class, and in Fig. 2 a roll of the second class, as supported by means of my improved adjustable brackets.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A denotes the upper portion of a windowcasing, and B, Fig. 1, represents a curtainroll provided at one end with a gudgeon B,

which is supported by and held from rotation by one of the curtain-roll brackets, the opposite end B of the roll entering and rotating within a cylindrical cup supported by the opposite bracket.

C denotes one of the brackets provided with a slot 0, adapted to receive the non-rotating gudgeon of the roll and having a foot 0 resting upon a slotted plate D, attached to the window-casing.

The slotted plate D is attached at its ends D D to the casing and is bent at D in order to raise the central portion D above the easing. The central raised portion D of the plate is provided with a central longitudinal slot D dividing the portion D of the plate into two parallel ways or tracks D D, to which the feet of the brackets are adj ustably attached. The end D which rests upon the casing, is connected with the ways or tracks 7 D D by the narrow strips or necks D D whose width is less than the width of the ways D allowing the edges of theways to overhang the connecting-strips D, as at D D.

The ends of the feet 0 are bent over and beneath the ways D, as at 0 so as to inclose the outer edges of the ways. The space between the ends 0 is filled by a plate E, provided with a screw-threaded hole E to receive a clamping-bolt F, having a screw-driver head F.

The bolt F passes through a blank hole in the foot 0 and enters the screw-threaded hole in the plate E, thereby clamping the ways D between the plate E and the foot 0 of the bracket.

The slotted plate D is attached to the easing and the bracket 0 is placed upon or withdrawn from the plate by loosening the bolt F to allow the plate E to fall below the ends 0 O and be turned one-quarter of a revolution into the position indicated by the broken lines E Fig. 7, so the plate E will pass between the connecting-strips D allowing the foot to be slipped ofi from the ways D in the direction of the arrow 1, Figs. 4 and 7, the ends 0 0 being short enough to pass outside the connecting-strips D".

In Figs. 3 and 4: I have represented the opposite bracket G, provided with a foot 0 clamping-bolt F, and nut E, which are the duplicates of those already described as belonging to bracket 0, Figs. 4 and 6, and. ad-

justably attached in the same manner to a slotted plate D, which is the duplicate of the plate D already described. The bracket G,

' however, instead of being provided with a slot like 0, is furnished with a cylindrical cup G, integral with the body of the bracket and provided with a hole G formed in the end wall G of the cup and concentric with the cup. When the brackets are to hold a curtain-roll of the class shown in Fig. 1, the bracket 0 is attached to one of the slotted plates D and the bracket G is attached to the opposite plate, with the open side of the cup facing the opposite bracket, as represented in Fig. 1, so the end of the curtainroll can be inserted within and allowed to rotate Within the cup. hen a curtain-roll of the class shown at B in Fig. 2 is to be supported, the nuts E are loosened and turned a quarter-revolution to allow the brackets to be removed from the slotted plates D and exchanged in order to bring the closed end of the cup G facing the opposite bracket and allow the rotating gudgeon B of the curtain-roll to be held by and turned within the concentric hole G as represented in Fig. 2.

The ends of the plate E are made to abut against the ends 0 of the foot of the bracket in order to hold the plate from rotating upon the bolt F and thereby prevent the bracket from being slipped 01f the ways D except when the plate E is sufficiently released to allow it to fall below the ends (J \Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an adjustable curtain-bracket, the

combination of a plate D having ends D and D adapted to rest upon and be attached to a window-casing and having its central section D raised above the casin g and provided with a longitudinal slot forming the parallel ways D D, said ways D, 1') being connected with the end D by strips D", D narrower than the ways D D whereby said ways are made to overhang said strips D as at D and D", a bracket Oprovided with a foot C resting upon the central and raised section D of said plate, said foot having its ends extending over and beneath the edges of said ways and forming abutting surfaces for a plate E, a plate E fitting the space between the ends O 0 and a tightening-bolt screwed into said plate E and passing through the foot of said bracket, whereby said bracket is held upon said plate and is removabletherefrom, substantially as described.

2. In an adjustable curtain-bracket, the plates D provided with. the central, raised and slotted sections D having ways D, D connected with one of the ends of said plates by the strips D, D narrower than said ways so as to form the overhanging edges D and D and interchangeable brackets C and G said bracket G having a cup G and a hole in the end wall of said cup concentric thereto, substantially as described.

Dated this 7th day of November, 18%..

ROSELLE T. GREEN. Witnesses:

RUFUS B. FOWL R, H. M. FOWLER. 

